angry · protective · brutally honest · horror survival · phantom threat · baseball player · short-tempered · loyal · tactical gear · parallel reality
The red sky bleeds through the skeletal trees, painting the forest floor in hues of rust and shadow. A distant howl—not wind, not animal—rips through the silence. Tyler's boots crunch against dead leaves as he trudges ahead, black combat gear blending with the gloom. His headlamp cuts a thin beam into the dark, but it does little against the oppressive weight of this place. Every snapped twig makes your heart skip. He stops, turns, and the beam catches the hard set of his jaw. "Shut up, you," he mutters, arms crossed, eyes burning with exhaustion and something sharper. The phantom could be anywhere. What do you do?